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Being able to forecast the popularity of new garment designs is very important in an industry as fast paced as fashion, both in terms of profitability and reducing the problem of unsold inventory. Here, we attempt to address this task in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Stefanos-Iordanis Papadopoulos , Christos Koutlis , Anastasios Papazoglou-Chalikias , Symeon Papadopoulos , Spiros Nikolopoulos

Result relevance scoring is critical to e-commerce search user experience. Traditional information retrieval methods focus on keyword matching and hand-crafted or counting-based numeric features, with limited understanding of item semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yunjiang Jiang , Yue Shang , Rui Li , Wen-Yun Yang , Guoyu Tang , Chaoyi Ma , Yun Xiao , Eric Zhao

Result relevance prediction is an essential task of e-commerce search engines to boost the utility of search engines and ensure smooth user experience. The last few years eyewitnessed a flurry of research on the use of Transformer-style…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Ziyang Liu , Zhaomeng Cheng , Yunjiang Jiang , Yue Shang , Wei Xiong , Sulong Xu , Bo Long , Di Jin

Modern search systems rely on a fast first stage retriever to fetch relevant items from a massive catalog of items. Deployed search systems often use user engagement signals to supervise bi-encoder retriever training at scale, because these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Shasvat Desai , Md Omar Faruk Rokon , Jhalak Nilesh Acharya , Isha Shah , Hong Yao , Utkarsh Porwal , Kuang-chih Lee

Online platforms mediate access to opportunity: relevance-based rankings create and constrain options by allocating exposure to job openings and job candidates in hiring platforms, or sellers in a marketplace. In order to do so responsibly,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Aparna Balagopalan , Abigail Z. Jacobs , Asia Biega

Items from a database are often ranked based on a combination of multiple criteria. A user may have the flexibility to accept combinations that weigh these criteria differently, within limits. On the other hand, this choice of weights can…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Abolfazl Asudeh , H. V. Jagadish , Julia Stoyanovich , Gautam Das

Product search is one of the most popular methods for customers to discover products online. Most existing studies on product search focus on developing effective retrieval models that rank items by their likelihood to be purchased. They,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Qingyao Ai , Yongfeng Zhang , Keping Bi , W. Bruce Croft

Promotions are commonly used by e-commerce merchants to boost sales. The efficacy of different promotion strategies can help sellers adapt their offering to customer demand in order to survive and thrive. Current approaches to designing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Chenyang Zhang , Xiyuan Wang , Chuyi Zhao , Yijing Ren , Tianyu Zhang , Zhenhui Peng , Xiaomeng Fan , Quan Li

In this paper, we present a method to learn a visual representation adapted for e-commerce products. Based on weakly supervised learning, our model learns from noisy datasets crawled on e-commerce website catalogs and does not require any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Charles Corbière , Hedi Ben-Younes , Alexandre Ramé , Charles Ollion

In the last decade new ways of shopping online have increased the possibility of buying products and services more easily and faster than ever. In this new context, personality is a key determinant in the decision making of the consumer…

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In the realm of fashion object detection and segmentation for online shopping images, existing state-of-the-art fashion parsing models encounter limitations, particularly when exposed to non-model-worn apparel and close-up shots. To address…

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Recommendation algorithms have been leveraged in various ways within visualization systems to assist users as they perform of a range of information tasks. One common focus for these techniques has been the recommendation of content, rather…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Zhilan Zhou , Wenyuan Wang , Mengtian Guo , Yue Wang , David Gotz

Correctly pricing products or services in an online marketplace presents a challenging problem and one of the critical factors for the success of the business. When users are looking to buy an item they typically search for it. Query…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Jiawei Wen , Hossein Vahabi , Mihajlo Grbovic

We introduce a new model for online ranking in which the click probability factors into an examination and attractiveness function and the attractiveness function is a linear function of a feature vector and an unknown parameter. Only…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-28 Shuai Li , Tor Lattimore , Csaba Szepesvári

Computational visual aesthetics has recently become an active research area. Existing state-of-art methods formulate this as a binary classification task where a given image is predicted to be beautiful or not. In many applications such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Parag S. Chandakkar , Vijetha Gattupalli , Baoxin Li

Human aesthetic preferences for 3D shapes are central to industrial design, virtual reality, and consumer product development. However, most computational models of 3D aesthetics lack empirical grounding in large-scale human judgments,…

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Realistic and controllable garment visualization is critical for fashion e-commerce, where users expect personalized previews under diverse poses and lighting conditions. Existing methods often rely on predefined poses, limiting semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Chuancheng Shi , Yixiang Chen , Burong Lei , Jichao Chen

Homepage is the first touch point in the customer's journey and is one of the prominent channels of revenue for many e-commerce companies. A user's attention is mostly captured by homepage banner images (also called Ads/Creatives). The set…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Sreekanth Vempati , Korah T Malayil , Sruthi V , Sandeep R

E-commerce Search Results Pages (SRPs) are evolving from linear lists to complex, non-linear layouts, rendering traditional position-biased ranking models insufficient. Moreover, existing optimization frameworks typically maximize…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Pratik Lahiri , Bingqing Ge , Zhou Qin , Aditya Jumde , Shuning Huo , Lucas Scottini , Yi Liu , Mahmoud Mamlouk , Wenyang Liu

Modeling fashion compatibility is challenging due to its complexity and subjectivity. Existing work focuses on predicting compatibility between product images (e.g. an image containing a t-shirt and an image containing a pair of jeans).…

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